warnen
Meaning in English: to warn
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Die Ärzte warnen vor zu viel Zucker.
Doctors warn against too much sugar.
Forms of warnen in the top 5,000
German verbs change their ending with the person and tense, and each form is counted on its own. These forms of warnen are also in the top 5,000:
Der Wetterdienst warnt vor starkem Gewitter.
The weather service is warning of severe thunderstorms.
Meine Mutter warnte mich vor dem Gewitter.
My mother warned me about the storm.
Ich habe dich doch gewarnt!
I did warn you!
How common is warnen?
warnen is number 4,842 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 61,000 words. Its most frequent form is warnt (#2,277).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,838mögento like
- 4,839das Gremiumcommittee, body
- 4,840der Awardaward
- 4,841ausgeführtcarried out, executed
- 4,842warnento warn
- 4,843verursachento cause
- 4,844die Kreuzungcrossroads, junction
- 4,845auszutauschento exchange, to replace (zu-inf.)
- 4,846vorrangigprimarily, priority
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,842
- The most common German verbs#1,208
- German B1 vocabulary#1,571
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.